Movies and TvShows featuring "lap-dissolve" theme.

In the neo-noir crime drama, a teenager finds himself involved in a murder investigation and blackmail scheme after discovering a sex tape. As he tries to navigate the dangerous waters of Reno, Nevada, he must confront his own sexuality and the secrets that surround him.

In Devil's Island, a convict is wrongfully accused and sentenced to the island prison. He endures harsh conditions and faces sadistic guards and fellow prisoners. Determined to prove his innocence, he plans an elaborate escape, risking everything for freedom.

Set in the early 1950s, the narrative follows 15-year-old Cecilia, an orphan who becomes pregnant due to an assault by the orphanage warden. To conceal the pregnancy, she is sent to live with Ida, a woman desperate to adopt, residing in an isolated mansion with her lifelong maid, Alma. During her stay, a unique bond forms among the three women, offering solace from their individual loneliness and desires. However, the arrival of the baby disrupts their harmonious existence, leading to unforeseen challenges.

Georges Méliès (1861-1938), cinema pioneer. A first-person narration traces Méliès' early interests in drawing and magic shows. He builds a studio and constructs his own camera-projector, recruits dancers from the opera and actors from the cinema to make a variety of films that tell whole stories: histories, dramas, documentaries, and ads. He moves from farce into sophisticated comedies, developing cinematic tricks (dissolves, split screens, and double exposure) to create artificially-arranged scenes. Then, the cinema passes him by, and he lives the last years of his life in poverty, selling toys out of a shop near the Montparnasse train station, with Jeanne d'Alcy his star.